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Aside from her appearances on TV and on the cover of countless magazines, Fawcett explored theater in the 1983 off-Broadway play, "Extremities." She played a rape victim who gets back at her attacker in the stage and film versions of "Extremities."

Aside from her appearances on TV and on the cover of countless magazines, Fawcett explored theater in the 1983 off-Broadway play, "Extremities." She played a rape victim who gets back at her attacker in the stage and film versions of "Extremities." (Marty Lederhandler / Associated Press)

Aside from her appearances on TV and on the cover of countless magazines, Fawcett explored theater in the 1983 off-Broadway play, "Extremities." She played a rape victim who gets back at her attacker in the stage and film versions of "Extremities."